Hello everyone. Mr T here. I've just returned back from BinCon '15, where I've spent a wonderful couple of days browsing all the latest bins in the company of others with a healthy interest in the bins.
My highlight of the weekend was the Cosplay Gala - seeing four and twenty bin-loving folk strutting hither and tither, while dressed as their favourite bins, was an absolute delight.
Why, these days it sometimes seems as if everyone is angling for a little bin action - even the famous people. Here's my essential run-down of the top bin-happy celebrities.
My highlight of the weekend was the Cosplay Gala - seeing four and twenty bin-loving folk strutting hither and tither, while dressed as their favourite bins, was an absolute delight.
Why, these days it sometimes seems as if everyone is angling for a little bin action - even the famous people. Here's my essential run-down of the top bin-happy celebrities.
JULIETTE BINOCHE
French actress Juliette Binoche's real name is Julie Brown - but she once made so many brioche buns for a dinner party, that she had to throw dozens away. She was spotted the next day with her head in the bins, hungrily feasting on her discarded brioche! From this point onwards she became known by the nickname Julie "Ate Bin Brioche" - which she later shortened to Juliette Binoche for professional reasons, as there was already an actress in Equity with the name Julie Atebinbrioche!
SEAN BIN
Rugged actor Sean Bin is said to be so obsessed with bins that he has one in every room of his house. What does Sean keep in his bins? Dozens of smaller bins - and pictures of bins that he's cut out of magazines. He even uses a bin as his toilet - which doubles as an urn for the ashes of his late uncle!
BIN CROSBY
Richly-voiced crooner Bin Crosby once sang a duet with David Bowie - but he was said to be so starstruck upon meeting the Space Oddity singer that he kept running off to hide in a bin! Fortunately, Bowie was eventually able to lure him out with a piece of brie, and Bin later went on to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nashtray - with Stephen Stills, and the astray-obsessed singer-songwriter Graham Nashtray.
WHEELIE NELSON
Veteran country singer Wheelie Nelson reportedly has the largest collection of wheelie bins in the Northern Hemisphere. When he's not on the road, Wheelie is said to spend all his spare time polishing his bins, putting them out, and taking them back in again - every single day of the week, come rain or shine!
DUSTBIN HOFFMAN
Dustbin Hoffman is known for his roles in movies such as The Graduate and Rain Man. Even though he has twice won an Oscar, he's not too big to put out his neighbour's bins for them - whether they want him to or not! In 2007, police were called to Dustbin's street after one neighbour caught him climbing over her back fence to get to her bins! Dustbin's response when questioned by officers? "I just need to put her bins out!".
TRASHBIN KUTCHER
Steve Jobs actor Trashbin Kutcher is one of Hollywood's biggest jokers - as seen in MTV's bin-related hidden camera show Punk'd. He regards his greatest prank as the time he pretended a dog had drowned in one of Justin Timberlake's bins! As caught on film, Timberlake was so distraught that he burst into tears and vomited several times. When Kutcher revealed it had all been a prank, he presented Timberlake with a brand new, solid gold bin by way of an apology.
OSAMA BIN LADEN
Techincally, Osama Bin Laden isn't a celebrity - except to the members of the Al Qaeda - but that never stopped him loving bins so much that he added a "bin" to his name. Documents leaked by CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that Osama's bins were so over-"Laden" that he had to buy an extra one on Amazon!
Unfortunately, the bin he bought wasn't a local council-approved design, and he was said to have lost his temper when his local refuse collectors refused to empty it! Nevertheless, I have a message for the attention-seeking, self-styled "Bearded Bin" - if he ever returns from HIS watery grave, and PLOTS a scheme wherein HE plans to FLY an AIRCRAFT into my bins, I'll have no CHOICE but to HUNT him DOWN, set fire to HIS beard, and MAKE HIM eat IT. Let's SEE how he LIKES that.
Stay away FROM my bins, Osama! US-A! US-A!
Unfortunately, the bin he bought wasn't a local council-approved design, and he was said to have lost his temper when his local refuse collectors refused to empty it! Nevertheless, I have a message for the attention-seeking, self-styled "Bearded Bin" - if he ever returns from HIS watery grave, and PLOTS a scheme wherein HE plans to FLY an AIRCRAFT into my bins, I'll have no CHOICE but to HUNT him DOWN, set fire to HIS beard, and MAKE HIM eat IT. Let's SEE how he LIKES that.
Stay away FROM my bins, Osama! US-A! US-A!
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